Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Was it enough?
What were the causes for the evangelization of South America by the Jesuits not being effective? Interference by the secular authorities?
Monday, April 29, 2019
Altieri on Curial Reform
CWR: Despite much-hyped reform, new Curia remains a governing apparatus by Christopher R. Altieri
Vatican watchers got their first real look at what might be in store for the Church’s central governing apparatus this weekend, when an article appeared in the new edition of Spain’s leading Catholic Vida Nueva [...]
Vatican watchers got their first real look at what might be in store for the Church’s central governing apparatus this weekend, when an article appeared in the new edition of Spain’s leading Catholic Vida Nueva [...]
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Illumination
It is good to see adult converts; certainly has me thinking again about the question of initiating all babies, children, and teenagers into the Christian life without discernment by the pastor.
Keunwoo Kwon Reviews Justice as a Virtue
Reading Religion
While this book is an excellent work crafted by a first-rate scholar, this reader has a minor quibble about an omission rather than a commission. In this volume Porter does not address the issue of “burdened virtue” raised by Lisa Tessman in her 2005 Burdened Virtues (Oxford University Press). Since Porter discusses with nuance the complicated relationship between justice and eudaemonia in chapter 5, it is a little bit of a surprise that Tessman’s well-noted challenge to the Aristotelian moral tradition is entirely absent in this chapter. To what extent would Aquinas acknowledge the contingent connection between virtue and flourishing? Is it legitimate to see the virtue of justice as a mean in an Aristotelian sense, given that there seems to be no mean for an intense sensitivity to others’ suffering in this tragic world? Would Aquinas’s emphasis on supernatural grace and his eschatology based upon the Exitus-Reditus framework somehow help resolve this tension? These questions deserve a serious response from Porter, especially when her work implicitly touches upon the issues treated with care by Tessman.
Pascha, Resurrection, and Faith
Church Life: What Does Belief in the Resurrection Look Like? by David Fagerberg
The Importance of "Natural Philosophy"
Public Discourse: A Natural Philosopher’s Lament By John G. Brungardt
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